Joanne M. A. Murphy is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her work focuses on the archaeology of ritual and death in Bronze Age Greece and has addressed these issues in both the early small-scale communities of Crete and the later states on the mainland.

1. Ritual during periods of decline, collapse and transformation in ancient states; 2. Old deities for new men: religious practices and societal transformation during the Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age transitional period on Crete; 3. Rituals and tombs during the radical transformation of the Pylian State; 4. The legacy of Byzantine Christianity in the southern Mani Peninsula, Greece, after imperial collapse; 5. As Wari weakened: ritual transitions in the Terminal Middle Horizon of Moquegua, Peru; 6. Ritual resilience and adaptation in the wake of political transformation at Dainzú, Oaxaca, Mexico; 7. Rejecting, reinventing, resituating: a diachronic perspective on ritual in the aftermath of Tiwanaku state collapse; 8. Contextualizing the ritual phase in the evolution of eastern and southern African chiefdoms and states; 9. Flux and continuity in monument-building traditions in south India; 10. Merit-making at ancient Bagan, Myanmar: the role of socio-spiritual and political-cultural entanglements in the rise and fall of a classical Southeast Asian state; 11. Scales and pathways of human politico-economic affiliation: the roles of ritual